Sure is quiet in here....do I need to start a fight?

[Jimmy in NC]

I'll trade ya all muh Husquees for a Bota !

That's just wrong there.....



Jimmy

 

[little possum]

Its a deal Dan, there it is! You can right click, save as desktop Sent PM with shipping address!

 

[roncoinc]

I'll trade ya all muh Husquees for a Bota !

I'll trade ya all my squeels for,,,for,,, ANYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[roncoinc]

STOP WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's raining !!

good excuse as any

 

[tbone75]

STOP WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it's raining !!

good excuse as any

No rain here ! Yet ?

Been playing in the garden boxes,had my cukes in pots. 4 plants in each one seems to be too much ! LOL Dug holes and planted them where the berry patch was,think they were getting root bound. My one loan green pepper plant was water logged,so moved to the old berry patch too ? The hole I pulled it out of stihl has 2" of water in it !
Down right HOT out there now ! I like it !! Body feels a little better ! Least I am moving around !

 

[tbone75]

Watching the news right now. Strange storm is moving West ? Usually moves East ? Flood watch again today too.

 

[tbone75]

I'll trade ya all my squeels for,,,for,,, ANYTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How many and what model ? I will trade you sumpin ? :msp_rolleyes:

 

[dancan]

We just went from grey skies to blue and sun , all you can hear now is lawnmowers everywhere LOL

 

[Stihl 041S]

Hey all.

Google: Oneida flood and hit images.

My home town. Dikes held. Overflowed. Creek receded. Dikes still holding water. Out of the creek. Now nowhere for water to go.

 

[dancan]

Water has sure affected alot of people this year .

 

[pioneerguy600]

Best to live on a hill this year! If the sun ever stays out for a full day the grass and everything else will reach for the sky. My beans age growing 6-8" a day without the sun....:cool2:

 

[jimdad07]

Passed arf way down the page slackers !
All gone ta a Blade Sharpening GTG ???


When do I hill up muh spuds and how much dirt do I pull up ?

If they are about a foot high I'll hill them almost half way up the plant, you can do that all summer and you'll get a good harvest out of em.

 

[roncoinc]

If they are about a foot high I'll hill them almost half way up the plant, you can do that all summer and you'll get a good harvest out of em.

Or just go to a farm stand in watertown and buy em for ten cents a lb !!

 

[IEL]

Got a possibility for obtaining a proper hand crank forge blower. Real cheap too.
Now I just need to weld up a replica riveting forge.
That will be far better than the charcoal bbq Im using now.

I have decided to forge a babbitt ladle in the blacksmith shop instead of trying to find one.
Now I just need a better anvil.......

I have also gained access to a fully equiped aluminum foundry. Might even be able to cast my own saw parts... LOL
Just a matter of making patterns. Thinking of starting with a lead hammer mold.

 

[Jimmy in NC]

Got a possibility for obtaining a proper hand crank forge blower. Real cheap too.
Now I just need to weld up a replica riveting forge.
That will be far better than the charcoal bbq Im using now.

I have decided to forge a babbitt ladle in the blacksmith shop instead of trying to find one.
Now I just need a better anvil.......

I have also gained access to a fully equiped aluminum foundry. Might even be able to cast my own saw parts... LOL
Just a matter of making patterns. Thinking of starting with a lead hammer mold.

I had a lot of fun with the foundry at school. Be careful and get someone that is good with them help you the first time. Flux and skimming the slag off is critical with aluminum. I should have done more while I was there.




Jimmy

 

[dancan]

If they are about a foot high I'll hill them almost half way up the plant, you can do that all summer and you'll get a good harvest out of em.

You cover leaves and all ???

 

[pioneerguy600]

Pulled the big Tilly off the Contra this afternoon. Figured I might as well find out if it can be saved or start looking for another. The throttle and choke shafts were stuck hard and some of the body screws came out hard, no damage though. Got all the parts separated and soaking but put the main carb body in a can and covered it with acetone and white kerosene mix 50-50 and let it soak for 2 hrs while I did some other stuff, ate supper. Just now took it out to see how it was going, pushed on the choke lever with my thumb and felt a definite move. A couple of rocks back and forth and it was moving easily. Then attempted to move the throttle and I could feel a definite movement there as well. I let a little WD40 I added around the shaft both inside and outside the carb body. The shaft would rotate back and forth a little further each time and after 5-6 rocking times back and forth it then would snap back to idle on its own with the small spring attached to the throttle idle arm.

 

[IEL]

I had a lot of fun with the foundry at school. Be careful and get someone that is good with them help you the first time. Flux and skimming the slag off is critical with aluminum. I should have done more while I was there.




Jimmy

Sadly, the guys who used to run the foundry are both long gone. The only one there who has done any is the blacksmith. He has only done one or two castings there. The way it is set up really needs two people to run. The furnace is about two feet across, and two feet tall. It has a big diesel burner in it, and takes a crucible that is about 16 inch tall, and 10 inch across. They do have a smaller rig, but Im not sure if its functional. Its really a pretty serious foundry. It even has the molding tables, a big stack of flasks, and a few hundred pounds of green sand. There is a good sized stock of aluminum to cast, all I need to provide is a pattern.

Hmmm they do have a good selection of rare saws... Maybe I could make patterns of all the parts, and do a production run of IEL beavers... LOL

I guess I really could cast saw parts if I made the pattern good enough.

 

[jimdad07]

You cover leaves and all ???

Yup, you'll get more taters to grow off of the stem that way. Try about half of them to see how you do. It works for me pretty good.

 

[tbone75]

News said rain for the next 7 days !

Starting to feel like DCD ?